Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker"

Re:Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker" by eLobato on Thursday October 27, 2011 @03:59AM (#3162050)

EDIT: It looks that some dictionaries on the internet use Lumia and Lumias as the equivalent in Spanish for prostituta. I can guarantee (being Spaniard born and raised and having spoken in Spanish with people from literally any spanish-speaking country) that people use Lumi or Lumis in very, very rare occasions. Lumia is even weirder (I just learnt it to be honest) and I dont really understand why the dictionary only includes Lumia. (rae.es). Honestly I think that that word will be removed from the dictionary sooner than later.

I am sorry to say this but the entry is wrong :( Lumi = hooker. Lumia doesn't mean anything in Spanish. Actually most of the spanish speakers I met don't even know that Lumi = hooker (I have one cousin called Lumi and no one noticed until she was in her early 20s...)

Anyway it probably means something funny in other languages :p

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Re:Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker" by m1nes on Friday October 28, 2011 @03:40AM (#3167399)

I am Spaniard too and agree with what you say. If you search on a dictionary, lumia is indeed a word for 'Prostitute', but in some places of spain is used as an affectionate word.

In fact, my granddaddy used to call my small sister 'Lumia', which in north of Spain could be used as a familiar substitute for 'Rascal'.

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Re:Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker" by old_sound on Thursday October 27, 2011 @04:15AM (#3162091)

As being from Uruguay and having spoke with native spanish speakers from all over this is the first time I heard that word too. Also I like to read quite a lot. I even did a google image search for the word… nothing NSFW popped up.

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Re:Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker" by jvilalta on Thursday October 27, 2011 @11:26AM (#3163593)

Same here. I have spoken spanish all my life and constantly read books written by spanish speakers from all over the world and have never come across this word before.

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Re:Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker" by ebrenes on Thursday October 27, 2011 @03:51PM (#3165183)

From Costa Rica here and no one in my office has even heard of that being a spanish word.

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Re:Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker" by bep on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:15AM (#3163122)

I haven't hear that version of prostitute ever, and I'm from Colombia, and live there.

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Re:Anybody at Nokia speak Spanish? "Lumia" = "hooker" by dguaraglia on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:45PM (#3164443)

pseudo-Argie here (grew up and lived there for ~23 years), never heard the word.

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